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Dhammapada
Chapter XXI: Miscellaneous (303)
Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (29)
To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul. Stob. p. 231.
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.9)
He is esteemed, who is of the same mind to the good-hearted, friends, foes, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, relatives, the righteous, and...
Life of Pythagoras
FROM ARCHYTAS, IN HIS TREATISE ON THE GOOD AND HAPPY MAN. (1)
I say then that the good man is one who uses in a beautiful manner great things and opportunities. He likewise is able to bear well both prosperity...
The Republic
Book IX (592)
Then, if that is his motive, he will not be a statesman. By the dog of Egypt, he will! in the city which is his own he certainly will, though in the l...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (4)
All the parts of human life, in the same manner as those of a statue, ought to be beautiful. A statue indeed standing on its basis, but a worthy man...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (29)
By honoring a wise man, you will honor yourself. In all your actions place God before your eyes. You are permitted to refuse matrimony, in order that...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (31)
Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best, which contained worthy men. Stob. p. 247. Do those things which you judge to be beautiful, though...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIX: The True Gnostic Is An Imitator of God, Especially in Beneficence. (4)
Accordingly, the good man who has become heir of the kingdom, it registers also as fellow-citizen, through divine wisdom, with the righteous of the...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (27)
Shall we possess wealth, when we see thee? Shall we live, as long as thou rulest? Only that boon (which I have chosen) is to be chosen by me.'...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (2)
Such an one is persuaded that God is ever beside him, and does not suppose that He is confined in certain limited places; so that under the idea that ...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (31)
God indeed created all things for the use of man, that he might rule over them, and acknowledge therein the singular goodness and omnipotence of God, ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The True Gnostic Is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things. (33)
He, attracted by his own hope, tastes not the good things that are in the world, entertaining a noble contempt for all things here; pitying those...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: Description of the Gnostic's Life. (7)
Accordingly, then, in involuntary circumstances, by withdrawing himself from troubles to the things which really belong to him, he is not carried...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.21)
Whatsoever a great man does, that alone the other men do ; whatever he sets up as the standard, that the world follows.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (3)
We should confide in Virtue as in a chaste wife; but trust to Fortune as to an inconstant mistress. It is better that virtue should be received...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The True Gnostic Is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things. (29)
Thus not even in dreams does he look on aught that is unsuitable to an elect man. For thoroughly a stranger and sojourner in the whole of life is ever...
The Republic
Book X (618)
For we have seen and know that this is the best choice both in life and after death. A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (7)
Endeavour to be great in the estimation of divinity, but among men avoid envy. The wise man whose estimation with men was but small while he was...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (7)
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Asclepius
Section VI (2)
He tills the Earth. He mingles with the Elements by reason of the swiftness of his mind. He plunges into the Sea’s depths by means of its profundity. ...
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